One thing-- msys2 might be the wrong analogy here, as there are some wrappers necessary to get it to work with

native windows APIs. I'm just talking about the ease of installing a package, using it as a build environment without

being root, and being sure it doesn't leave any state after I uninstall/reinstall that package.

Thanks,

Jonathan

On Wednesday, April 27, 2016 11:47 AM, Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika@yahoo.com> wrote:

Hi list,

I'd like some help filling in the blank:

msys2 is to Windows as _____ is to Debian.

Is there anything in Debian that lets me have a user-land build environment? I want to install all my build dependencies in user-land,

without being root, without disrupting my normal system. Once the package is built I want to move it to my normal Debian system and

test it by installing/uninstalling as root.

Also, I want to build normal, boring deb packages, not containers or anything like that.

Is there a way to do this?

-Jonathan